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In The Dokdo/Takeshima Dispute, Paul Huth, Sunwoong Kim, and Terence Roehrig have assembled top scholars from Japan, South Korea, and the United States to provide a balanced and comprehensive look from multiple perspectives of this long-running island dispute.

In Due Process and Fair Trial, the author addresses the impact of Article 6 ECHR on EU competition law by combining comprehensive analysis of case-law on independence of justice and judicial review with insights from economics, psychology and systems theory.

This edited volume consists of 13 contributions that engage with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. It participates in the revaluation of Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry.

This book re-turns to the colonisation of New South Wales through the lives of the author's ancestors. By looking hard and listening carefully, by being prepared not to look away, the author re-thinks the way history might be done.

In The Essence of Linguistic Analysis by R. M. W. Dixon relates together, in a clear and succinct manner, individual grammatical categories, showing their dependencies and locating each in its place within the overall tapestry of a language.

In this volume contributors from different national and disciplinary backgrounds explore ideas, media, networks, and institutions of "conservatism" from the late 17th to the early 20th century from a transnational perspective.

Cartography between Christian Europe and the Arabic-Islamic World offers a timely assessment of interaction between medieval Christian European and Arabic-Islamic geographical thought, making the case for significant but limited cultural transfer across a range of map genres.

The The Qїrghїz Baatïr and the Russian Empire offers a vivid description of the dynamism and dilemmas of empire-building in nomadic Central Asia from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, through reconstructing the biography of a Qїrghїz chieftain, Shabdan Jantay uulu (ca. 1839-1912).

Explore the violence and conflict that lead up to the land invasions prior to Kenya's 2017 general election. The Contested Lands of Laikipia tells how, and why, land claims and ethnic categories became increasingly politicized here over the past century.

In Modern Architecture, Empire, and Race in Fascist Italy, Brian L. McLaren examines the architecture of the late-Fascist era in relation to the various racial constructs that emerged following the occupation of Ethiopia in 1936 and intensified during the wartime.

The studies in this volume reveal the personal complexities and ambiguities of crossing borders and boundaries, with a focus on modern East Asia. The authors transcend geography-bound border and migration studies by moving beyond the barriers of national borders.

An effective tool for reading postcolonial con/texts, ideology also provides a matrix to grasp the world, enabling collective political action. This interdisciplinary volume reflects that each position is subject to asymmetrical power relations, with critiques of ideological manifestations occurring in intersecting cultural, social, and political configurations.

Maciej Mikula analyses the Ius municipale Magdeburgense, the most important collection of Magdeburg Law in late medieval Poland, and shows that the adaptation of Magdeburg Law was a complex process.

Through an account of how Istanbul is provisioned since the late 19th century, Candan Türkkan provides an account of the marketization of urban provisioning practices and its implications for the sovereign and the political community alike.

This book offers an analysis of the ground breaking mathematical work of Gregorio a San Vicente and his student and shows that the Flemish Jesuit Mathematics School had profound influence on mathematics in the seventeenth century.

This volume presents regional approaches on the formation and transformation of national literary canons as a practice of nation-building in various cultural traditions (Polish, Hungarian, Lithuanian, Estonian, etc.) from the 19th century to the present times.

An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.

An exploration into the networks of exchange that functioned as ways of connecting the Iberian Peninsula and the British Isles in the early modern period focusing on the interpretation of texts related to communities and exchanges across these territories.

Chinese Families Upside Down offers the first systematic account of how intergenerational dependence is redefining the Chinese family and goes beyond the conventional model of filial piety to explore the rich, nuanced, and often unexpected new intergenerational dynamics.

This book deals with Chinese and Japanese inscriptions (8th century AD) about the footprints of Buddha. The language of the Japanese inscription reflects the contemporary dialect of Nara. Its writing system presents a special interest being practically monophonic.

This volume shows that, contrary to the perspective over the past decades, the School of Salamanca encompassed a variety of different sites and actors throughout the world and thus represents a case of global knowledge production.

Francesca Martelli surveys the contours of current scholarship on Ovid. Her appraisal covers the post-structuralist recuperation of Ovid's poetry that began in the 80s, and looks toward the narratives that posthumanism and other new materialist discourses have yet to disclose.

In Matarenda/Talents in Zimbabwean Pentecostalism, the contributors reflect on how Pentecostalism contributes to the empowerment of marginalised societies, empowers women through the matarenda practices, and contributes to the development of wider society.

Building culturally robust and intelligible theories in a rapidly changing world calls for openness in methodological diversity. As greater interdisciplinary innovations are necessary to keep psychology of religion relevant, cultural psychology and narrative inquiry emerged as a promising integrative paradigm.

Staging History unites essays by nine specialists in the field of late medieval and early Renaissance drama. Their focus is on English, Dutch and Humanist German drama, as well as on a modern Swiss adaptation of Shakespeare's Henry V.

In this selective overview of scholarship generated by The Hunger Games--the young adult dystopian fiction and film series which has won popular and critical acclaim--Zhange Ni showcases various investigations into the entanglement of religion and the arts in the new millennium.

Thi volume presents twelve new studies in Biblical Hebrew on pausal forms, prosodic dependency, ordinal numeral syntax, ellipsis, the infinitive system, light verbs, secondary predicates, verbal semantics of the Hiphil binyan, and hybrid constructions.